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The Moon to Light the Night: Gender as Ideology and Lived Experience on the North Coast of Peru

Sargent, Katherine

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Control of the effects of wind, sand, and dust by the citadel walls, in Chan Chan, Peru

Gorin, S. StevenVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State University1988

Chan Chan, the prehistoric capital of the Chimu culture (ca. A.D. 900 to 1450), is located in the Moche Valley close to the Pacific Ocean on the North Coast of Peru. Its sandy desert environment is dominated by the dry onshore turbulent and gusty winds from the south. The nucleus of this large …

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Ancestor Worship in the Middle Sicán Theocratic State

Matsumoto, Go2014

<p>The major focus of this dissertation is the ancestor worship that is inferred to have been practiced in the multiethnic Middle Sicán theocratic state (AD 950-1100) that prospered on the northern North Coast of Peru. The major objective is twofold: (1) demonstrating by archaeological means that …

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